Six deputies committed unspeakable acts. The sheriff says he never imagined. Really?
This latest law enforcement horror story took place in January after dispatchers received a call from the woman’s neighbor alerting the deputies that there were Black men living in the home who were engaged in “suspicious activity.” The deputiesHateful incidents such as the one in Rankin County remind us that we are not much removed, if at all, from America’s lynching past. But they also should make us question the predictable instinct to claim that the behavior came seemingly “out of nowhere.
, called themselves “the Goon Squad” and were “known for using excessive force and not reporting it.”Racism is like a hothouse flower: It requires special conditions to grow and thrive. My bet is that the deputies’ workplace might have provided better-than-normal conditions for hatred to flourish. Anti-Blackness, like the kind Rankin County should now be remembered for, doesn’t typically present itself so nakedly unless the coast is clear. People need to know there will be no consequences for saying what they think out loud. Every racist joke usually begins with the joke-teller looking slyly over both shoulders.being racist that’s the danger.
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